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This video by Thom Bartley captures the joy of #PlayOutTilTea beautifully. A day boldly placing children front & centre & celebrating how they engage with the world when they feel safe to be who they truly are, as the youngest city in Europe Birmingham needs much more of this #RadicalChildcare

Impact Hub Birmingham and F A M A L A M have been successful in securing a small pot of development money from Big Lottery Fund to work to understand what’s needed to make Birmingham & the Black Country a home for system wide innovation around childcare, children and families.

There are four main phases and we welcome partners who would like to join us for any part of the journey.

Impact Hub Birmingham are seeking Playworker Wizards to join our skills trade programme – do you have experience of working with children and would you like to join the magical team making the Impact Hub Birmingham community awesome?

"There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children."

I am really chuffed to announce that FAMALAM has received Open Access funding from Creative Black Country for a series of family events in Bearwood & Smethwick in 2017 that explores Art for Social Good.

New for Impact Hub Birmingham and building upon the #RadicalChildcare Co-Creche and Stay & Play sessions with F A M A L A M, we are delighted to introduce Mission Birmingham - Parent Membership.

“We live in a network of peers who are not typical 9-5ers, a nomadic tribe of people who view the world in a different way and want to make it better, we see having children and our working lives, not as separate things but as one and the same. – Alice, Impact Hub Member

At this stage Kidoop is just a prototype, but we hope that a resource like Kidoop might help to make Parent Childcare Cooperatives a feasible alternative here in the UK, one that is more flexible, affordable and rooted in community, allowing children, parents and communities to thrive.